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What is Free-To-Air? BEC, Coolsat, Viewsat, Digiwave, Pansat, DMT, SA, ProSat, and the list goes on and on! Where did all of these receivers come from? While the U.S. and Canadian Cable industry distributes their programming largely via products sold by Motorola and a few others, the rest of the world chose the MPEG-2 format. Granted, even though, the Motorola Digicipher II has some MPEG-2 attributes, it nevertheless remains a totally proprietary platform. Who has chosen MPEG-2 as a platform? Dish Network, Scientific Atlanta, and the rest of the world. Even DirecTV is a early version of MPEG-2. MPEG-2 is a digital platform that allows several digital broadcasts to be compressed onto one frequency or channel. Without MPEG-2, Digicipher, or other compression platform, it would not be possible to have direct broadcast television services like DirecTV or Dish Network. Equally important is the way the programmers get the their product to their retail outlets such as DBS and cable. They too have chosen compressed digital transmissions largely due to cost. PAX on GE-1 is an example of this.
WHAT CAN BE SEEN ON MPEG2-FTA?
FTA or "Free To Air" simply means that the signal is not encrypted. Most
cable type programming is encrypted. Occasionally programmers may turn
the scrambler machine off and you can see a channel or two with an
MPEG-2fta receiver. You will never see Time Warner cable programming,
i.e. CNN, HBO in fta mode in the U.S.. CNN, and other international news
channels, are available to viewers around the world in free to air mode,
but not to the U.S.
In the U.S. there are a number of channels that are available via MPEG-2 FTA receivers that have indicated that they plan to remain in the clear or are believed to intending to stay clear. These include Saudi TV, Abu Dhabi, Thai TV, Kuwait TV, Syria TV, Taiwan, Iran, and as we go to press, Bloomberg TV all on Telstar 5, ku, which can be received on a .7 meter dish. The list changes now and then but these and more can be seen today.
